Email authentication

I need to have some sort of email authentication on some
sites I have built in ASP and VBScript. I have users sign up for a
7 day trail of some news sites and then when their trail has ended,
lock them out of the site unless they subscribe. Now this all works
fine, but some people have been entering false email addresses and
managing to slip through the net.
Now, once they have entered an email address, I need to send
an email to that address and supply a link to verify that email
address thus activating that trial account.
I can't figure out the sending of the email with a
verification link in it and how it applies to the correct record
once the link in the email has been clicked.
I think this is quite standard nowadays, but I can't seem to
find anything on the web for ASP email verification other than the
usual check for the '@' and '.' in an email address...
Has anybody got any tutorials/samples on how I might achieve
this, or even recommend an extension or similar.
Thanks.
Mat

Setup a User databse.
In it have UserName (and/or E-mail), Password, ExpirationDate
When they sign up send them an e-mail with the password and
an expiration
date (for the trial or for paid). Store that info in the DB.
If they are who they say they are, they'll get the password
and be able to
log into the site.
Every month or so (depending on size) go through and remove
those that are
well past the expiration date.

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